Poems and drawings purportedly by Cheshire home invasion killer Joshua Komisarjevsky and clothes he reportedly wore in prison are for sale on a website that hawks items of serial killers and other notorious murderers.
The website darkvomit.com began...

HARTFORD — There was little left to hold on to in the charred ruins of Dr. William Petit Jr.'s burned home in Cheshire.
A fire set there during the deadly 2007 home invasion that killed his wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, and daughters Hayley and...

The thoughts and memories still spin like a revolving door.
But these days, the door turns a little slower for Bill Petit.
The good things in his life fight mightily against the heartache he endured seven years ago.
Awarding a local children's...

Recorded police calls from the morning of the 2007 Cheshire home invasion murders, never provided to prosecutors or defense lawyers, were recently discovered in town hall and are being reviewed for potential new evidence.
A Cheshire town employee...

Courant crime reporter Gerald J. Demeusy probably didn't realize at the time that he would chronicle a historic moment in Connecticut on the night of May 17, 1960.
The veteran journalist watched 2,000 volts of electricity surge through the body of Joseph Taborsky, the man condemned to die for terrorizing Connecticut during a three-month murderous robbery spree in the winter of 1956-57.
Taborsky, ironically nicknamed the "execution bandit," was the last person to die in Connecticut's electric chair....

The state Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Tuesday on whether Connecticut's controversial prospective repeal of the death penalty is constitutional.
The General Assembly eliminated capital punishment a year ago. But to win passage, lawmakers forged a politically inspired compromise: repeal the death penalty for future cases but maintain it for the 10 men currently on death row, including Cheshire home invasion killers Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky.
The challenge to the state's closely...

On Wednesday, the Land of Lincoln became the 16th state to abolish capital punishment.
The abolition of the state's death penalty has been 11 years in the making. Gov. Pat Quinn made his decision, he said, after reading several books, including the Bible. Here's a round-up of what some Christian groups say about capital punishment.
That leaves 34 states that still have the death penalty as an option -- including Connecticut -- where the policy has been the focus of recent public hearings around a...

With two trials of his family's killers now behind him, Dr. William Petit Jr., the lone survivor of the 2007 Cheshire home invasion, plans to marry again.
In an email Wednesday, Petit, 55, said no date has been set for his marriage to Christine Paluf. Petit's mother, Barbara Petit, said the couple became engaged after Christmas.
Paluf, 34, is a photographer specializing in weddings, portraits and events. She has taken photos at Petit Family Foundation events. The foundation, dedicated to the memory of...

Over the years, I've run across a fair bit of prejudice against lawyers. I'll not suggest that lawyers don't earn a certain amount of disdain, but when a white, tobacco-chewing, sheriff implied that if I came through his county after dark I'd never leave it, I felt that was a little excessive. My crime was to be representing a black man from New York who I thought was probably innocent of killing a white policeman in Mississippi. As if that were not enough, I had suggested that the sheriff, "Goon" Jones...